Robert Bertram, the chief scientist for the nation’s efforts to solve global hunger and food insecurity will present a lecture, “The End of Hunger: from Vision to Reality,” on Thursday, March 31, at 4 p.m. in The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center auditorium, according to a University release.
The event is free and open to the community.
In his role as the top researcher for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security, Bertram leads the agency’s science-based efforts to advance research, technology and food security in support of the government’s “Feed the Future” initiative, the release He also serves as a key adviser on a range of technical and program issues to advance global food security and nutrition.
The E.T. York Lecture Series was established in the College of Agriculture in 1981 by a gift from the late E.T. York and his wife, Vam Cardwell York. York was an Auburn agronomy and soils alumnus who directed what is now the Alabama Cooperative Extension System for two years before being named administrator of the federal Extension service and in the following years, served as interim president of the University of Florida and, later, chancellor of the State University System of Florida.
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